Comment on A peaceful protest againt Web Environment Integrity

Goodie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Chromium is by far the dominant browser engine. What they do is effectively the standard and implemented by websites and thus approved. That’s why this has to be stopped there.

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  • Goodie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Once upon a time IE6 was the dominant browser engine.

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    • Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And there are still WebApps today (especially in the business internal network world) that only work with IE6 because Microsoft was just throwing their own standards out and doing whatever they wanted.

      When you are the dominant player and you make standards that no one else can follow, you destroy competition. We got lucky that businesses and developers liked blink and WebKit, if businesses had been able to make more money from only supporting trident that’s exactly what would have happened. “Use IE without tabs or an adblocker or you can’t access Facebook, Steam, Gmail, your bank, etc”

      You don’t have the choice as an individual when the choice is made for you.

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      • Goodie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You have a choice as an individual today, but you might not in a few years.

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  • pglpm@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Luckily “effectively the standard” is just a temporary thing. What browser was considered “standard” has changed many times in the past, and will continue to change in the future. Of course for this to happen everyone who cares must keep on pushing.

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• mjhagen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ¿Por qué no los dos?

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  • Goodie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly the best response.

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